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Thoughts that cannot survive the open air and that evaporate as soon as we take them out of the room. To put them to the test of isolation. Take them out of the book where you found them, they do not endure.

— Joseph Joubert The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

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Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

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